Akagi / 2015

Akagi Shigeru is a young, white-haired mahjong genius. One summer in 1965, he ends up facing off against Washizu Iwao, Japan’s King of Darkness who has amassed enormous fortune and power, at the request of his acquaintance, the rogue detective Yasuoka. As the observer, Ogi Takeshi, a leader of the henchmen of Inada-gumi watches over them, mahjong...

Akagi / 2005

Giappone, anni ’60. In un malfamato locale, alcuni yakuza stanno giocando a mahjong contro un avventore del posto, in forte debito con il gruppetto di malavitosi. Mentre il pover’uomo è sul punto di perdere la partita, si presenta al tavolo un ragazzino, Akagi Shigeru, che si offre di prenderne il posto; e con grande sorpresa dei presenti, il...

Akagi: Ryūzaki–Yagi hen / Ichikawa hen / 2017

Akagi: Washizu Mahjong Kanketsu-hen / 2018

Akagi the Gambler II / 1997

Akagi appears again one year after the night where he first played mahjong.

Akagi the Gambler / 1995

After a death-defying game of chicken one evening in 1958, Akagi nonchalantly enters a Yakuza Mahjong parlor to shake the cops' trail. Even unfamiliar with the rules of Mahjong, his gambling intuition is enough to save a small time gambler, Nangou, and grant him a seat at the gambling table. As the night progresses, the stakes are raised both within the game and for Akagi, who is under the suspicion of local police. However, Akagi overcomes the situation with his tactics, defiant of both life and chance. When he leaves the gambling house, no one present is in doubt of his genius.